Version: 2.1 (using 4.1.3 (KDE 4.1.3), Kubuntu packages) Compiler: cc OS: Linux (i686) release 2.6.27-10-generic Konsole defaults to ctrl-shift-m for opening a new window, it seems most other kde apps default to ctrl-n. It would be nice if konsole would act the same way... :-) Btw, it would also be nice if konsole would have ctrl-t preconfigured as default "open new tab" shortcut.
I think this isn't possible as all the Ctrl+Letter shortcut are catched by the shell itself (like you can't copy some text pressing Ctrl+C cause that will close the currently running application/command)
Ctrl+<Letter> shortcuts are reserved for use by terminal applications but where possible we try to take the 'standard' shortcut for an action and add Shift. So Ctrl+Shift+C, Ctrl+Shift+V are copy and paste and Ctrl+Shift+W is close tab.
Actually I might re-think the new tab shortcut though. Currently Ctrl+Shift+N is used because that is equivalent to the 'new document' shortcut and Konsole is tab-orientated. Ctrl+Shift+T might be better but we currently use that for splitting the view top/bottom.
*** Bug 257251 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
First of all my apologies for missing this report earlier and opening a new bug report. May I add two cents though? As far as I am aware (but correct me if I'm wrong), the Ctrl+T and Ctrl+N shortcuts are not usually used by bash, etc. Is it then really so bad to use these instead as konsole shortcuts? Presumably users needing to pass these to the shell would in any case notice what is happening and reassign the new tab/window shortcuts.